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The OFA PeerTA Archive captures historical information from the peerta.acf.hhs.gov website for reference and record-keeping purposes. The PeerTA site contains information posted within the past three years. You can search for any prior information below.

Webinar: Using the Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR) – A Demonstration

Webinar / Webcast

The U.S. Department of Labor will host a webinar on August 19, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET to re-introduce the agency’s Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR). This Clearinghouse identifies information…

What strategies work for the hard-to-employ? Final results of the hard-to-employ demonstration and evaluation project and selected sites from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project

Report

In the context of a public safety net focused on limiting dependency and encouraging participation in the labor market, policymakers and researchers are especially interested in individuals who face obstacles to finding and keeping jobs. The…

A Bayesian reanalysis of results from the enhanced services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project

Report

Social policy evaluations usually use classical statistical methods, which may, for example, compare outcomes for program and comparison groups and determine whether the estimated differences (or impacts) are statistically significant — meaning…

Synthesis of research and resources to support at-risk youth

Report

This report provides a synthesis of research and existing ACF resources for serving at-risk youth. It describes what we know from research about at-risk youth. It then describes how at-risk youth are currently being served by ACF programs and by…

Alternative employment strategies for hard-to-employ TANF recipients: Final results from a test of transitional jobs and preemployment services in Philadelphia

Report

As welfare caseloads have declined over the past decade, policymakers and…

Innovative employment approaches and programs for low-income families

Report

The Innovative Employment Strategies project, conceived and funded by the U.S.…

The Employment Retention and Advancement project: Results from the Texas ERA site

Report

Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, little is…

Report on a meta-analysis of Welfare-to-Work programs

Report

This report uses meta-analysis, a set of statistically based techniques for combining  quantitative findings from different studies, to synthesize estimates of program effects from  random assignment evaluations of welfare-to-work programs and to…

What works best for whom: Effects of welfare and work policies by subgroup

Report

This report examines the effects of welfare and work policies on earnings, welfare benefits, income, stable employment, and stable welfare exits across a range of subgroups using information from random assignment studies of 26 welfare and work…

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